Russia's fuel market is unraveling the consequences of strikes on oil refineries are becoming increasingly evident.

[riversedge]

Only when the people of Russia are directly affected by the Putin's war with Ukraine, will they start to notice!!!

‼️ Russia: “Gasoline price increases at Moscow region gas stations have accelerated sharply.”

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www.kommersant.ru/doc/8760540

— Prune60 (@prune602.bsky.social) 2026-06-20T01:44:59.947Z

Russia: A gas station with nukes, soon to be out of gas.

— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) 2026-06-20T08:56:00.467Z

Russia's fuel market is unraveling
the consequences of strikes on oil refineries are becoming increasingly evident.

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[riversedge]

1. A Russian woman can't find gas in Krasnodar and doesn't understand what's happening to the country. Indeed, something st

A Russian woman can't find gas in Krasnodar and doesn't understand what's happening to the country. Indeed, something strange is going on in Russia.

A Russian woman can't find gas in Krasnodar and doesn't understand what's happening to the country. Indeed, something strange is going on in Russia.

— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T16:44:19.359Z

This is the second lady who I see complaining and both have Western cars, a BMW and Mercedes, btw how are they getting spare parts . . like are there no sanctions or is it perhaps we do not enforce it enough and it goes through 3th party countries, like Kazakhstan and Türkiye?

This is the second lady who I see complaining and both have Western cars, a BMW and Mercedes, btw how are they getting spare parts . . like are there no sanctions or is it perhaps we do not enforce it enough and it goes through 3th party countries, like Kazakhstan and Türkiye?

— 13BulliTs Loves the EU (@13bullits.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T17:24:12.494Z

[riversedge]

2. "I can't WAIT to see even more of this:............

I am also happy to see the shortage of gas in Russia



‪freddiedouglass.bsky.social‬
‪@freddiedouglass.bsky.social‬
· 2d
I can't WAIT to see even more of this

I can't WAIT to see even more of this

— (@freddiedouglass.bsky.social) 2026-06-17T21:02:50.909Z

[Lovie777]

3. And since day one, Putin attacks civilians, properties...............

destroyed whole areas, killing and maiming while taking communities.

Constance bombing residences, took over a nuclear plant with constance bullying that Putin might use it.

Ukraine has had enough and are targeting infrastructures that will destroy the Russian economy.

Ukraine is not targeting the civilian population with bombs, it's targeting Putin and the filthy rich.

[riversedge]

4. She used the term "temporary decommissioning of certain manufacturing capacities" as a euphemism for Ukrainian strikes o

‪Anton Gerashchenko‬
‪@antongerashchenko.bsky.social‬
· 20m
Yesterday, head of Russian Central Bank Nabiullina acknowledged the growing strain on the Russian economy.

She used the term "temporary decommissioning of certain manufacturing capacities" as a euphemism for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.

Yesterday, head of Russian Central Bank Nabiullina acknowledged the growing strain on the Russian economy.

She used the term "temporary decommissioning of certain manufacturing capacities" as a euphemism for Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.

— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) 2026-06-20T12:06:39.315Z

One might also call them "rapid unscheduled drone-assisted disassembly".

— Special Disinformation Operation (@specdisinfoop.bsky.social) 2026-06-20T12:13:08.842Z

[Igel]

5. It's a bit less dire in some ways per the article.

They're citing independent gasoline station chains. They get gas on the open market because they don't do the exploring, drilling, transportation and refining themselves.

There are some large government-affiliated "VINKs", vertically-integrated oil companies, that do the Chinese thing--control their chains from ground to retail pump, and the article says that their gas is "37-50%" cheaper. And, yes, the independents *can* buy it form the VINKs, but there's a surcharge, middlemen take their cut, and there's a 2-month wait before delivery. So there.

When you see "VINK" think "Putin-sycophant oligarch". They are the ones whose facilities are being damaged, but they're also the ones that can pull supplies off the open market, they have large tanks that they can store reserves in, and they have financial resources to both "seize the crisis" to help get rid of pesky competitors (or maybe weaken them to buy them up) and subsidize customers to prevent their patron, the Putin, from looking bad.

If the VINKs can manage to get fuel to the near-Moscow area for a while, it may mitigate some of the shortage but eventually their stocks will run dry even as the openly traded gasoline supply is reduced really to what can be imported from Belorussia. I'd think Lukashenka is happy to be making more cash and be able to say to Putin that he's doing him a solid.